Very good film, but not just a zombie flick

Rating: 9/10 (28 June 2003)

There's much more to this film than what the "reinvention of zombie horror" hype would lead you to believe. If all you want is slow-moving cadavers out for a gray matter snack, trot on down to Blockbuster and rent something from George Romero. And if you want that PLUS expensive CGI effects so all the zombies are 30 feet tall and they shoot laser beams out their eyes and they're really cooool, then you should especially look elsewhere. The "infected" set things in motion and they're a major, terrifying threat to the characters throughout, but the heart of the movie is about how people deal with one another when things get really, really bad. Which (as we see in the movie) is often quite a bit worse than what the "infected" would do. No one ever said the apocalypse would be pretty.